Copied this from publib and thought it might be of
interest in case it comes up at a staff meeting or
when requests come in to the museum as the publisher
of record:
Slightly more than one year after the Shared
E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group was
formed, the National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) has issued "SERU: A Shared
Electronic Resource Understanding" as part of its
Recommended Practice series (NISO-RP-7-2008). The SERU
document's publication follows a six-month trial use
period, during which time librarians and publishers
reported
on their experiences using the draft document.
SERU offers publishers and librarians the opportunity
to save both the time and the costs associated with a
negotiated and signed license agreement by agreeing to
operate within a framework of shared understanding and
good faith.
"SERU is a wonderful example of librarians and
publishers working together to create a new option for
electronic resource transactions that is convenient
and legal," said Working Group co-chair Karla Hahn,
Director, Office of Scholarly Communications,
Association of Research Libraries. "Small publishers,
especially, will be able to use SERU to reduce
licensing costs making them more competitive and
easier for librarians to work with."
Co-chair Judy Luther, President of Informed
Strategies, added, "Based on a decade of licensing
experience, SERU represents widely adopted practices
already in place in North America, and is both library
and publisher friendly."
"The SERU Working Group developed a document that
addresses the key issues in a manner that is nuanced
and creative, and they did it in record time," said
Todd Carpenter, NISO's Managing Director. "The
feedback we received during the trial use period was
uniformly positive." The trial use period ran from
June 20 through December 20, 2007.
The Recommended Practice and a SERU FAQ are available
from the SERU webpage:
http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/). In accordance
with plans laid out by the SERU Working Group, which
concluded its work with publication of the Recommended
Practice, NISO will produce additional materials to
help publishers and libraries adopt a SERU approach,
maintain a registry of participants, and continue to
promote, educate, and plan for regular review and
evaluation of SERU.
Note: This announcement was cross-posted to multiple
lists.
Cynthia Hodgson
NISO Technical Editor Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: 301-654-2512
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